Midwest Techno Originals

Aril Brikha was born in Tehran, Iran and emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden at the age of three right around the time of the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979. He started playing keyboard when he was 7 years old and by the mid nineties was confident enough to shop some labels in his new Swedish [...]

Before Technics 1200’s, Disco, The Garage, The Music Box, The Warehouse, and The Power Plant nightclubs, there was Lil’ Louis (not to be confused with Little or Lil’ Louie Vega from Masters At Work who he later collaborated with).
Marvin Louis Burns was born in Chicago. His father was guitarist Bobby Sims, who recorded for [...]

Reverting is taken from Jeff Mill’s The Purpose Maker EP released in 1995 on his Axis label.  I wasn’t sure if I should blog about a legendary superstar who is known to 99% of the people reading this blog but then I realized, most of them have probably not followed this man as closely as [...]

This track by Steve Poindexter could very well be thee track that birthed a whole generation of Ghetto House artists. Again, this track has the Casio RZ-1 drum machine in it. As a matter of fact, this track may have been made with ONLY the drum machine. The Casio RZ-1 has [...]

Armando (Armando Gallop) founded Chicago’s legendary Warehouse Records with Mike Dunn in 1988 and produced some of the earliest and coolest stripped down Acid tracks of the early Acid House days, most notably Land Of Confusion & 151. He worked with a number of Chicago’s heaviest hitters of the late eighties and early nineties [...]